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The quality of the grass aka lawn at Wolfe Tone Park is very poor. It is uneven and patchy in places. Despite it being a utility lawn it could be still much better.
The Croppy Acre is park which is lacking despite having a recent makeover.Stephen C …I think the statue of Kelly’s Children of Lir would be far too large to have on O’Connell Street.
Perhaps if it is removed it will end up with the Floozy….aka Anna Livia fountain.I think the kiosks look a bit cumbersome, resembling pre fabs or cargo boxes, giving a cluttered effect on the briidge. Maybe they should have been installed at the time the bridge was revamped, would have avoided this reaction now. But we should give them a chance however.
In hindsight, It’s good to see that the Liffey boardwalk has been a good success however despite all the initial nagative talk from An Taisce and the like etc….. Maybe Cork, etc ….could have the same.
O’ Connell Street will prove to be a success too, despite the negative talk from the Green Party etc….Conforming to Post Modern 1980’s?
Else I could tell ye a yarn and say that the trappings date from the great empire age of Victoria with the statue of Molly Malone herself made by the very hands of Auguste Rodin….ahem!
Grafton Street is a good street however with an air of middle class affluence, even if it can be a bit pretentious and uppity, roish!Just to add that Art Deco former garage building in Phibsboro has been given a make over.
I heard it was opening up as a night club place.
See too that the booths are being installed on Capel Street Bridge.
First impressions ….they make the bridge rather cluttered.Natural autumnal dusky light!
Although Barry Mason’s look kinda synthetic, almost as if they were reproduced in 3D Max..aka hence the kinda super realism, almost plastic synthetic CGI effect!
(in a Chuck Close kinda way)Here’s a good one of the Spire (pre light break down ….ie when it had a white light adorning the top, unlike the cheap regular sodium street light yoke at the mo)
I was over in Glasgow last year AlanD for the Scotland V Ireland game and noticed that Glasgow is a charming city but it has got some awful high rise 60’s developments plonked in fine old uniform streets.
What do you think of the newish Royal Concert Hall …..there’s a fine statue to Donald Dewar there….and the Buchannan Galleries.George Square looks great with it’s City Chambers and central column; vestiges of it’s Victorian past.
Aye ……there were some great Irish craftsmen who decorated these homes such as the Stapleton Brothers who were stuccadors (they were plasterers Fin)
Graham Hickey conveyed much better what I was trying to say and Rory is correct by saying that there was mainly dross built here since we rightfully gained our independence with just the few exceptions.
People hark on about Georgian vistas etc…..because they were designed with the most fundamental tenet of urban design, with symmetry and focal points in mind…..which is why Modernism failed at times too. If you look at the rejuvenation of O’Connell Street these tenets or principles are being applied in a way …ie the positioning of the Spire, the specific landscaping and planting of trees and placement of furniture, the widening of the foothpaths etc… This is whats at the core of good urban design. A lot can be learned from such classical times that can be applied today (and not just in a pastiche Post Modernist sense or style)
Fin, you just can’t dismiss it as rubbish, that is an innane remark. You come across as being rather cavalier and ignorant.
What would you propose then a few glitzy appartments and a Spar, more practical I suppose.Well let’s say as has already being said it’s like replacing the missing leg of a fine old antique table. Would you replace it with tubular steel. The damage was done to 16 houses of a mile long street. In the context of the whole street it would be, I believe, the best solution if it were repaired with faithful replicas, (although I am totally against pastiche(see Gardiner Street)
In Europe for example after WW11 fine squares and streets which were partially damaged due to air raids/bombings were faithfully reconstructed, yet those that were obliterated were built anew in the then contemporary style. Let’s say then in this case that Fitzwilliam Street has been partially damaged.
I accept our colonial past, it’s a fact we Irish must accept as part of our history.
However, it does not justify the destruction of our architectural heritage that has been left to us.Originally posted by FIN
what has me being from galway got to do with anything? the fact the georgian houses are a mistake to keep execpt for 1/2 so people can get on a tour bus and see them or the fact that i believe that it’s a huge mistake to rebuild some on some terrace? these are poxy houses. if a bungalow was destroyed would you want them to recreate it? same difference. they were a style for a forgotten era and so should be left there and more modern houses built to accomodate people from this era because the way we live our lives, spend our leisure time have changed immensly.
My Jasus….what a stupid comment! I’m not even gonna reply, but I reckon ye should get those architectural history books out so as to learn a bit about architectural heritage so as to appreciate it more. You sound like an amadan at the moment.
the only crime is that they didn’t knock the whole f**king lot of them.. what a disaster if they rebuild them. talk about not learning from mistakes of the past. [/B][/QUOTE]
You are from Galway, therefore you ignorantly say that!
Originally posted by Paul Clerkin
McNally Crane Hire are one of the biggest crane companies in Ireland – they supplied the crane to put up the Spire as Dubliners couldnt do it themselves.Best keep the jobs in Ireland ….else I suppose firms from Britain or the rest of Europe could have done the job too.
Wacker & Macker INC., the local ‘Jacks of all trades’ could have done it too I suppose.
Aye that (The Laughter Lounge, aka the Odeon cinema or Screen 2 cinema , or whatever it was once called) had to be one of the most ugliest buildings in Dublin, especially too if a far more finer building (aka the Corinthian) was sacrificed to replace it.
Saw the prog the other night….I prefer his later stuff ; the geometric paintings with the circles and spirals in gold and silver etc…evoking our Celtic past to his earlier daubings aka Franz Marc, Marc Chagall kinda stuff….Very good documentary on the man; he must be one of the last of the old Irish 20th century painters left . He seems to have had quite a priviledged and comfortable life too.
